George,
I don't know what the problem was, but the new screws that I had were black,
truss head 1/4-28 and they would not screw into the cage nuts that I had. Of
course the cages were OK, although they didn't quite have as much adjustment
as the original. But, by the time I discovered that the black screws didn't
fit the cage nuts, I was in the process of sending the car to be resprayed,
so didn't have time to mess around. The final solution for me, as I said
earlier, was to just use standard 1/4-28 nuts with a large flat. I really
hated to do it that way but the only other method was to use some zinc
plated truss head screws that I found, that did fit the cage nuts, but of
course wouldn't fit the last "special cage nut bracket" that levers the rear
fenders closed above the taillight housings on the rear edge of the fenders.
I definitely did not want two different looking screws in that trunk edge,
so opted for no cage nuts where I had to remove them.
Jim Bauder
'58 TR3
Palo Alto, CA
George Richardson wrote:
> I got my square nuts, cages and fender mounting kits from TRF about 4
> years ago and had no trouble with them. In fact, I ordered extra cages
> and nuts, since they seems to come off unpredictably, and still have
> some extra that work fine with the correct bolts.
>
> For those of you who need to get hold of these square nuts, have you
> considered welding 4 corners onto the correct size hex nuts? with a MIG,
> you could do this in less than a minute per nut.
> Jim Bauder wrote:
> >
> > Listers,
> >
> > Beware, the cage nuts that I bought from TRF and/or Moss were NOT
> > 1/4-28! They seemed to be some bastard size, but were maybe 1/4-20
> > (but I don't think so). The straight slot screws that came with the
> > TRF "Fender Mounting Kit" for the inside the trunk edge of the TR3
> > would not screw into those nuts. I ended up using standard 1/4 -28
> > nuts on the inside of the fenders where I had to cut the
> > rusted-in-place cage nuts off with my Dremel and/or Makita grinder. It
> > worked fine, not original, but it worked.
> >
> > I just threw away the 10 new cages and the square nuts I bought!
> >
> > Jim Bauder
> > '58 TR3
> > Palo Alto, CA
>
> --
> George Richardson
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